Don’t Make Me Turn This Plane Around!
In order to get to Miami to help my mom move I had to fly. It’s been a while since I’ve flown, but I remember most of the “rules”. One I hadn’t heard before was that passengers are not allowed to walk around after the plane pulls away from the gate, but before liftoff. On the day I was flying a man tried to go use the restroom while we were waiting to taxi to our runway. The flight attendant asked the man what he was doing.
“Oh, I’m just going to go the the bathroom.”
“Sir, you have to sit down while the plane is moving.”
“But we’re not moving (we weren’t) I was going to go really quick.”
“Sir, if you don’t sit down I have to tell the captain and we have to stop the plane.”
Now, this could be post 9-11 security measures and valid. But I couldn’t help but think that it sounded like a parent threat, “don’t make me turn this plane around.”
